Novocaine (2001)

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Rating: R
Release Date: Nov 16, 2001
Running Time: 95 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
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Frank Sangster is living the American Dream. Blessed with a thriving dental practice and a sleek modernist home, he is happily engaged to his ambitious dental hygienist, Jean Noble. His perfectly managed life quickly unravels, however, when Susan Ivey, a seductive new patient with an appetite for pain-killers, settles into his dentist chair. Before long, drugs are missing from his office, Susan's psychotic brother Duane is stalking him and Frank himself is wanted by both the the DEA and the police for drug trafficking and murder. As he flees from authorities, Frank becomes increasingly drawn to Susan and through her learns he is the victim of an elaborate con scheme, which may also involve his wayward brother Harlan. Fueled by the desire to create a new life for himself and Susan, Frank plunges into a shadowy world of drugs and violence in order to prove his innocence, only to discover that breaking the law might provide his only hope for freedom.
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Doctor Frank Sangster
Jean Noble
Harlan Sangster
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Detective Lunt
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Pharmacist Wayne Ponze
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November 13, 2001
Steve-o gets serious as a dentist. Numbing Steve martin has done drama before with striking results - I'm thinking especially of The Spanish Prisoner, not the soggy A Simple Twist of Fate. But the role of Frank Sangster, DDS, gives this protean talent - comic, actor, screenwriter, essayist, playwright, novelist - precious little to bite into. Frank's life in root canal is flowing along nicely; he has a thing going on with Jean (Laura Dern), his hygienist. But Jean is a little prissy for Frank's… Continued
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Dr. Frank Sangster, D.D.S. (Steve Martin) has a great life. He has a thriving dental practice, a lovely fiancée who is also his dental hygienist (Laura Dern)--and a subconscious desire to have something unexpected happen to him. Enter Susan Ivy (Helena Bonham Carter), a slightly off-balance patient who seduces the doctor one night in his office and ends up cleaning him out of all his pain medication. Susan and her equally whacked brother (Scott Caan) steal the drugs and then sell them on the… Continued